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Everything wrong here.Even the spectacularly expensive Israeli Iron Dome (paid for with American taxpayer dollars) performed poorly against cheap unguided Hamas rockets, made out of trash they find on the floor and costing less than $100 a rocket.
1) Nothing expensive about the Iron Dome. Its missiles are cheaper than most of the aid defense system missiles.
2) Performance was astonishing. Not a SINGLE person was killed in protected towns out of thousands rockets fired at dense populated areas. Not a SINGLE rocket passed through in Tel Aviv out of over 100 fired.
3) Rockets used by Hamas were not made "out of trash", but factory made Grads, WS-1E, Fajar-5, Uragan, WS-1 with high supersonic speeds.
Note that Iron Dome detects sources of fire with high accuracy. And in real war Israel would simply MLRS them. Finishing it it two days.
Iron Dome intercepted 4-5 Mach WS-1 rockets, which are hypersonic speeds. Maneuvering at such speed is nonsense.Compare that to advanced hypersonic missiles (not rockets) that can maneuver at hypersonic speeds, with multiple BMD countermeasures and MIRV warheads. (Soon to be HGV warheads).